Improvement in fluted puffing for shi rt-bosoms



GEO.E. KING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLUTED PUFFING Fonsi-IIRT-Bosolvls.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,036, dated October 23, 1866.

. To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, G. E. KING, of the city, county, and State of New York, have discovered or invented a new and useful Fluted Puffing applicable to Shirt-Besoins and other parts and articles of dress, the same constituting a new article of manufacture; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a face View of a section of my new tinted puffing previously to its being washed; Fig. 2, an outside edge View of the same; Fig. 3, a sectional edge view thereof; and Fig. 4, a front or face View of the puffing after having been washed, and as sewed between the plaits of a shirt-bosom.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts throughout the several figures.

Yithcut confining myself to any precise mechanism for manufacturing my tluted puffing, I would here observe that to` produce it machinery is necessary not only as regards its iluted surface, but also its flattened borders, and the articlebeing completed by machinestitching.

The following description will suffice to explain how this may be done: I take a strip of muslin of any desired length and width, and run it, for instance, through or between a pair of heated rollers formed with flutes on their peripheries, the flutes of the one roller meshing into the flutes of the other, and both rollers provided with Hat-edged iian ges on either side of them, working in such close proximity-that is, the iianges of the one roller with the iianges of the other-as, in running the strip of muslin between the fluted and lianged surfaces or peripheries of the rollers, it will issue from them with a central tluted surface,

A, for a greater portion of its width through' out the length of the strip, but with a hardpressed iiattened border, B, on or along each opposite edge or edges of it on both sides or faces of the strip. I then take this tluted strip, with its flattened borders, and run it successively, for each edge or border B, under or through a sewin g-machine, and so that a thread or line of stitching, a., will be run along either border at the extremities ofthe iiutes, thereby y tacking or binding the flutes in a regular and systematic manner, and at the same time hinding or tacking the borders B, which, being formed by the iianges of the rollers compressingor iiattening down the extremities of the flutes, will be, as it were, of double thickness and desirable strength, without a separatingbinding for stitching them to or between the plaits b of a shirt-bosom, or otherwise attaching them to other parts or articles of dress.

Thus may a puffing ot' the greatest regularity andst-rength beprodueed at a trifiingcost and with great celerity.

What I claim is- The within-described flu ted pufiiug, as a new article of manufacture, and made by fluting by mechanism, and in a regular manner, a strip of muslin or other material throughout its length, and compressing and iiattenin g down the extremities of the iiutes to form straight and regular borders on either and opposite sides of the flutes, and afterward machine-stitching said borders along and at the union of the borders with the tintes, substantiall y as specified.

GEO. EDIVIN KING.

Witnesses:

J. W. CooMBs, G. W. REED. 

